Overview
- Workers United says roughly 3,000 baristas at more than 145 stores across over 105 cities are participating in an open-ended unfair labor practice strike.
- Twelve demonstrators were arrested outside the Empire State Building for disorderly conduct after blocking an entrance, according to the NYPD.
- New York City’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection announced a $38.9 million settlement with Starbucks for widespread Fair Workweek violations since 2021.
- Starbucks says 99% of its 17,000 U.S. locations remain open, reports its strongest Red Cup Day on record, and notes 55 of 145 strike-targeted stores were closed Thursday.
- The company and the union are not in active bargaining, with both sides saying they are ready to return to negotiations when the other is.